Vehicle-wheel



Patented Feb. I4, I899.

No; 6l9,669.

F. CASE. VEHICLE WHEEL.

(Application filed Sept 18, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICEQ FRANK CASE, OF ROBINSON, KANSAS.

VEHICLE-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 619,669, dated February 14, 1899. Application filed September 16 1898. Serial No. 691,106. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK CASE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Robinson, in the county of Brown and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-VVheels; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a side elevation of a vehicle-Wheel embodying the inven- Fig. 2 is a detail view of a portion of the wheel, with the rim in section and the spokes broken ofi. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional View of the rim or felly, and Fig. 4 is a similar view showing a modified construction.

This invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in wheels having wooden rims or fellies, and is designed to provide means of novel and efficient character for preventing to a large degree expansion and contraction of the wood composing the rim or folly and to give increased durability thereto.

With this object in view the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, all as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the hub of a vehiclewheel; B, the felly thereof; 0, the spokes, and D the tire.

Formed in the peripheral face of the felly is a circumferentiallyextending groove or channel H, and communicating with the bottom of this groove or channel at suitable intervals are apertures h,which extend through the felly from the inner side. The tire D is formed with registering apertures 01.

G designates screw-plugs which are seated in the apertures h and whose outer end portions extend through the said groove or channel and close the apertures 61 in the tire. The groove or channel instead of being entirely in the rim may be partly, if not altogether, in

the inner face of the tire, its purpose being to provide between the folly and the tire a surrounding oil chamber. Said groove or channel may extend continuously around the wheel, or each felly-section may be provided with an independent section thereof, closed at its ends. Oil is introduced to this chamber by turning the screw-plugs sufficiently to open the apertures d to permit oil to pass through the same. In lieu of oil any other desired or suitable fiuid or composition may be employed. The 7 oil or other fluid contained in this chamber penetrates into the pores of the wood and prevents the wood from being swelled by water and from shrinking when dried. When the tire is heated by the sun, the effect is to drive the oil or other fiuid into the wood.

The invention is applicable not only to wagon and carriage wheels, but to wheels in farm implements and machines, and, in fact, to metal-shod wooden wheels generally.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a wheel, a wooden rim or felly, a tire thereon having perforations, a sectional fluidcontaining chamber or cavity between said rim or folly and the tire, and screwplugs seated in said rim or felly from the inner side thereof and extending through the rim or felly, through the said chamber or cavity, and closing the perforations in the tire,whereby, by partially withdrawing said screws, said perforations may be opened, substantially as specified.

' 2. In a wheel, a sectional felly, each section of which has a peripheral groove or channel therein, closedat the ends, a tire having per forations which communicate with the said groove or channel, and removable plugs for closing said perforations, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK CASE.-

Witnesses:

A. B. QUAIFE, J OHN W. MATTUOKS. 

